The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics- 1997
The Dutch Language at the Millennium
Published on 10. May 2000
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-7618-1674-4 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing upon presentations from the 1997 Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics, The Dutch Language at the Millennium is part of an ongoing series from the Dutch Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley. It is written by scholars on a variety of topics ranging from semantics and syntax to language history and ideology. General linguists as well as those specializing in the Dutch language will find this volume a useful tool. Co-published with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-1674-4 (9780761816744)
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Persons
Thomas F. Shannon is a professor of Germanic Linguistics and Dutch Studies in the Department of German at the University of California at Berkeley. Johan P. Snapper is Queen Beatrix Professor of Netherlandic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Content
Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Heads and Tails of Dutch Spoken Words: An Experiment on the Relative Contribution of Word Beginnings and Endings to Word Recognition Chapter 5 Stereotyping, Prototyping, and Figurative Use: Towards a Proper Semantic Analysis Chapter 6 Empirical Pragmatics: Downtoning and Predictability in a Dutch Final Particle Chapter 7 Clause Order as a Discourse Marker Chapter 8 Semantic Role Configurations and Syntactic Patterns of the Dutch Indirect Object Chapter 9 On Topicalization in Modern Dutch Chapter 10 Er: Information Structure and Specificity Chapter 11 The Order of Constituents: Towards a Functional Pattern for Dutch Clauses Chapter 12 On the Order of (Pro)Nomial Arguments in Dutch and German Chapter 13 "The girl that promised to become something" An Exploration into Diachronic Subjectification in Dutch Chapter 14 Dutch and Polish in Multilingual Dictionaries of the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Chapter 15 Dutch Historical Linguistic Geography Chapter 16 The Language of the Eastern Netherlands and the Ripuarian Area Chapter 17 On the Use and Abuse of Social History in the History of the Dutch Language Chapter 18 Language Planning and Ideology: The status of Afrikaans After Apartheid